BBC Real Easy English 如何用英语谈论游戏

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Hello and welcome to Real Easy English.
In this podcast, we have real conversations in easy English
to help you learn.
I'm Beth.
And I'm Georgie.
You can find a video version of this podcast
and a worksheet to help you learn
on our website, bbclearningenglish.com.
So how is your week going, Georgie?
It's going well. It's only Monday.
I'm already quite tired.
How about you, Beth?
I'm OK. I'm not tired yet,
but give me till this afternoon.
So, Beth, what are we talking about today?
Today we're going to talk about games.
The kind of games we like playing.
Maybe games we don't like as much.
So shall we start the conversation?
Yes, let's get started!
So, Beth, do you enjoy games?
It depends on the kind of games.
I think if it's something physical where you're, I don't know,
running around a park or being silly – sporty things.
Those kind of fun games I enjoy.
But if it's like board games or card games,
honestly, I don't really like them.
What about you?
I do like games. I also like sporty games.
We did that in the park, didn't we, with our team?
We did, we did. Which was really fun and it's a good bonding experience.
But I, unlike you, do like card games.
And I enjoy playing them with friends in the pub.
I can be quite awkward
so sometimes if I feel like I don't want to talk anymore, I suggest a game.
And then we don't have to talk to people anymore.
I feel like if it's a card game where you have, like, a question
and it's like, I don't know, you've got five seconds,
like, name three modes of transport.
Those kind of like talking, fun, laughing games with cards I enjoy.
But if it's something to do with the hearts and the diamonds... urgh no.
I just think I'd rather have a conversation
and just talk to my friends or whoever I'm with.
OK. So you don't like slow games,
so probably you wouldn't like things like Monopoly, which go on
for hours – your whole evening.
Honestly, I think I had a bad experience as a child with Monopoly. This game...
We went away with all of our neighbours.
There were lots of people, and we played a game of Monopoly
and it lasted about, I don't know, five hours.
Probably not that long.
Yeah. No, probably.
Monopoly lasts for so long.
It's so long.
But also people get really aggressive and competitive with Monopoly,
don't they?
Is that because people cheat?
Yeah. Well, people can cheat. Yeah, for sure.
But people get... It's like they think the game is their real life
and they get so angry and people lose friendships.
That is my house!
Now, you said 'cheat'.
What does that mean?
Well, 'cheat' is to, kind of, lie or say something that isn't true.
For example, you might pretend that you have something and actually you don't.
Cheating is seen as negative.
Yes.
It's like you're not following the rules as well.
That's it, yeah.
Do you like cheating?
When I was a child,
I liked to cheat.
But no, because now it just feels dishonest.
If I... if I win a game, I want to win because I actually was good enough
or did well enough to win.
Yes.
Are you a cheat?
I'm not a cheat.
Because I think I'm... I'm too much of a...
what we call a 'goody-goody', or someone who likes to follow the rules.
So, Georgie, a quiz is a type of game, I guess.
Do you like quizzes?
Yes, I also like quizzes.
I used to go quite a lot to something
we have a lot in the UK called a pub quiz, where you go to a pub,
there are lots of teams and you answer questions with your team.
And I used to really enjoy that because
a) you're socialising with your friends in the pub,
but I find it really satisfying when you get the questions right.
I've actually won a couple of pub quizzes.
Have you?
Yeah.
Well done.
It's really hard sometimes when all of the questions are general knowledge
that you don't know anything about.
That's really boring.
But when you know the questions, it's fun.
Let's recap the vocabulary we had during the conversation.
We had 'board games'.
These are games where players usually move pieces
around a flat board like chess.
We had 'quiz', which is a game where you answer questions.
'Cheat' means to be dishonest when playing a game,
and you can also call a person a 'cheat' if they are dishonest in a game.
We had 'goody-goody', which is someone who likes following rules, like me.
And you can do a 'quiz' on our website.
Go to bbclearningenglish.com and you'll also find a worksheet there
so you can test what you've learnt.
See you then.
Bye.
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